So today is the day, has EU banned memes yet?

the botnet has won, thanks leddit

> people would be forced to make OC
You missed the part where companies would probably be forced to not host it, and anything that looks 80%+ similar in automatic detection.

Just shows that this law is completely unenforceable, resulting in either nothing or total disconnect/text only web. You think normies wouldn't rebel by then?

Thank you. Don't you just love it when one genius equates all of this to GDPR as well? It has happened.

>that 30 year old boomer who wants to ban memes

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Am I the only one who sorta wants governments to get more restrictive on the internet so that we can go full cyberpunk?

show me the list, son

I kinda want regulations to be such that people actually have to use protocols. We stopped doing that a while ago and it's really sad.
I hope at some point some event in our world happens that fucks up the "web" to the point where people need to start using protocols other than HTTP and HTTPS. Normies have a browser fetish that's quite frankly annoying

Except pepe's were deemed to be in the public domain after the creator failed to win his court case, so it would be exclusivly pepe's if it was bsnned

i'm already hoarding weird porn so i can sell it on pendrives in dark alleys ten years from now. can't wait for the future
>iot bullshit becomes a standard
>remember to use your iot devices in safe and protected network!
>wpa2 got cracked, new wpa3 thing gets released, but people are still using abcd1234 passwords
>fucking around with people using directional wifi antenna and basic dictionary cracker, ordering food in their smart fridges, turning off their ac

i just hope i won't be too old for this shit when it finally happens

>sell it on pendrives in dark alleys ten years from now
I'll see you there

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>muh memes
fucking brainlet retard

Text can be copyrighted. You will only be able to use new words such as xkdvvk.

That (You) was far overdue, but thanks anyway.

idk :^)

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>502 Bad Gateway
i-i'm scared anons

You do realize 'brainlet' is nothing but a meme?

>3rd wolrd GDP
>3rd wolrd GDP per capita
>3rd wolrd GDP per capitta (PPP)
>3rd world hiv rates
>infrastructure falling apart
>literally millions of people fleeing every year

"slava ukrajini" indeed

FEMANON IS A HOHOL TRAP !

I love traps

You realise most of these shit memes are American made right?

Finland makes the best memes

Sounds like a nice idea

What would happen to me if I posted a meme if the law was approved?

Nothing. The website would maybe have an upload filter but it wouldn't change anything for you.

Ah ok. Fuck the EU either way.

Yeah.

independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/european-copyright-laws-memes-link-tax-article-13-11-a8432486.html

Well, what do you know. EU isn't stupid.

Only Sweden voted 100% against

Well, over 50% of the ministers are decent enough I suppose.

Everyone who was ever involved in the EU should be executed by firing squad.

If you don't want people taking your shit maybe you shouldn't put it on the fucking internet.

Just voted against it

Nice list, retard.

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wtf frenchfags

What the hell, frogs?

as expected of french people

>sweden
>no

?

sweden has a lot of pirates
they hate copyright filters

Pretty sure every country besides the US and Germany have a lot of pirates.

No, the EU listens to its people.

then I don't know why every country didn't go full 'no'

source?

czech republic and slovakia had no fucking idea what was going on

Sweden/swedes are very angry/passionate about internet/privacy things. Even to the point where it interferes with police investigations

ok, but who has the copyrights to boomer or pepe ?

finally something that doesn't make me ashamed of being swedish

>lithuania
>85% no
lmao

Unironically reddit, I suppose the raw data is available somewhere on EU's websites
reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8wblrj/mep_votes_on_the_eu_copyright_directive_by_name/
Also Linus Torvalds' dad was voting too, against the thing naturally

>PSOE y PP a favor
>Ciudadanos, Podemos y catalanes en contra
Extraños posicionamientos. Creo que no tenían ni puta idea de lo que votaban.

"Democracy" Meme doing evil again. Democracy is a lie.

Mememagic is real and powerful.
Memes threatening globalists evil plans confirmed. It's gonna be outlawed. The good will win in the end.

my only concern is...what can this do to porn?

>Sweden no
That's a new one for em.

This can kill the free porn on the internet completely.
No more rule 34.

why are the french so shitty?

>UK

something about genetics, they are all born mentally impaired. who else would surrender in almost every war in past 2 centuries?

They fought for you in the War of Independence and gave you the Statue of Liberty.
Half Washington's navy were French ships and the Battle of New Orleans was a French victory.

>Democracy literally saves the day from a law that was being made behind the shadows by corrupt overlords

It doesn't effect memes. The law would force websites to ensure uploaded content doesn't violate copyright. People somehow think this applies to memes which it doesn't. Most people are against the law because there isn't a good enough system for detecting if something violates copyright and it'll likely just lead to sites deleting content "just in case" just like Youtube demonetizes and deletes videos constantly for no reason at all other than that their system sucks.

>xkdvvk
>You have been muted for 2 seconds
FUCK

>It basically proposes a filter on every single upload anyone makes to any website, be it text, image, binary, anything and everything.
Machine learningfags wish this was possible

that was the monarchy, not the republic

I'm not American.

>Getting triggered by frogs.

It looks like the frog posters did the things right

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. White people were a mistake. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Shut up, of course we did. It was about stealing pictures and files on the internets. We just felt like seeing how you guys feel about the whole thing first.

Doesn't China pretty much do this though?

>Bulgaria
>Latvia
>Romania
They literally had no idea what this was about. They can't enforce basic copyright shit over there.
>France
They're just evil.

Go back to your containment pen.

What's even funnier is seeing you explain this directive, even though it's obvious you haven't read it.

The directive specifically says such filters (it actually doesn't even specify they have to be "filters" , it's up to each state to specify in their national law how this should be implemented, but let's use your word) would only be required for large content sharing online services. So this means this directive would not apply to each and every website, you moron, only to those which the national legislator deems "large".

But it's too much to ask from a boomer like yourself to read the text. :)

is there one with votes by party?

I like this. I admit it.

Then instead you can print out your memes and plaster them on the walls of government buildings

No it wont, you fucking idiot.

If the law get passed, it will mean that evey single picture uploaded will need to be checked for copyright infrigement

That means that creating 'OC' would be a painful process as theres no way fucking Jow Forums could check all the new images that get posted every moment, the only way to solve this is by posting images that are already 'approved', forcing us to copy the same memes over and over again.

>Poland
For once in my life I'm proud. Those few guys who abstained were probably too drunk to knew what's going on.

Backstabbing frog fucks

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Sweden
>based
France
>they pretty much proposed the bill, so...

>Implying everyone here is a burger.

No, you fucking idiot, this directive wasn't meant to be applied to anything but large sites.

4chin is a pathetic 1 terrabyte total active content site. That's like very far from any definition of large online content sharing site.

This directive was only meant for the likes of youtube, spotify, soundcloud, facebook and such.

>Had no idea
More like they're making 10s of millions every year from hosting pirated content

In my country it has been illegal to download pirated content for decades now.

I have downloaded no less than 500TB worth of all sorts of content you could imagine, sometimes even hoard it.

What makes you think that they would just go and ban "memes"? It's even exceptionally vague. Some people don't even know what a meme is and they post it anyways. Some people think that an opinion is a meme. Some forms of media, like movies, videogames, books or music contain memes and they sell on those.

At best they will probably filter some content. Maybe those nazi pepes because everyone fucking knows about those. To ban "memes" is like banning "bad words". Some people think "disabled" is a bad word, so at that point why not just ban language?

I know.
It sure feels good to live in a country that respects your privacy.

Holy shit. EPP is single handedly trying to ruin the internet.

>oh geez this is a tough one, I'm just going to sit this one out
I never get this. As a politician isn't it your only job to vote for shit? You either think something should be a law or you don't.

>France
Je suis désolé que nos représentants soient aussi merdique

I think it's mostly because there's too much corruption in French government. the tl;dr is :
>be minister, depute or whatever
>good friend with [insert CEO of big companies]
>never do anything against them
or
>be in a party
>have to vote what the party decided or else they manage to fuck you up
>decisions are made by the representative that is friend wit [insert CEO of big companies]

for those who wonders what "friend" means, some minister signed an agreement with microsoft to use windows on school and later on hospitals. At the same time, from nowhere, microsoft made a donation of 20M€ for education in France + said they would invest in french start ups or some bullshit like that.

It's always like that in France so I'm not really surprised about the outcome of this bill

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